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Non profit web design in Chicago is something that we take very seriously at robbuti.com. I personally take great pride in doing any work for non profit organizations in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.  Whether your organization needs a new website or some routine maintenance, robbuti.com is there.  We even reduce our hourly rate by close to 50% for any non profit organization in DuPage and Cook county.  It is our way of saying thanks as we know you are a very important part of our community and we understand that there has been massive budget cuts around the city and suburbs for organizations like yours.

Hopefully your site is properly set up to capture your donations and volunteers from the start.  Make sure you have a button or some text that stands out so you can get those donations and volunteers that you deserve. Make it easy for your visitors to find what they are looking for and it will help and make sure to give Chicago SEO company a call to help you out.

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In dealing with many clients throughout my career as a web designer and Chicago seo specialist I’ve come across a pattern among small business client’s or those clients who come to me with “an idea.” When dealing with small business clients you never know when or if you are going to get paid!  I always ask for 50% up front and usually see the remaining 50% after a few emails or a few phone calls, but there are a few clients who just don’t respond or keep making excuses.  One of the biggest excuses right now is of course “the economy.” Of course those clients who use the economy as an excuse are the same ones you find  paying $600 a month or more to a Google ad campaign or a directory where their site is listed, but they can’t seem to give you the $600.  I think I need to get beefed up and start breaking some legs around here like Stewy in this Family Guy clip:

Yeah, you got money to pay for fake mustaches huh!  How much did you pay for that fake mustache?

$2.99

The lesson learned is to get your money upfront for any work that you do.  So those of you just starting out with web design, please take this advice and save yourself a lot of time and money!

Now we’ll move onto the client’s who come to you with “an idea.”  I’ve had several clients come to me with “an idea” and the vast majority tell me that their idea is like Facebook, lol. Once you hear that their idea is like Facebook, run!!!  Nothing is worse than dealing with clients who have no idea how the web works, they just come up with elaborate ideas that they think can be whipped together for about $1,000. Tell them to take a hike, stop being so nice and don’t waste another second of your time with “an idea” client.

Of course there are many more pet peeves, but I will save them for a later time.

Google’s move to confront the Chinese government over the censorship of its search results is looking shrewder by the day. It has succeeded in mending some of the damage to its reputation caused by its original entry into China, it’s given a huge boost to the morale of thousands of Google staff who were never happy defending that decision, and it’s moved the spotlight onto its rivals’ China policies.

But it could also prove a decisive moment for the fortunes of its Chrome browser. Miocrosoft has admitted that there is a vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser, which was apparently used by the Chinese hackers who launched an assault on Google and other companies. The German and French governments have both responded by advising their citizens to avoid Internet Explorer.

This terrible piece of PR for Microsoft comes just as the IE browser which had almost total control of the market starts to come under pressure – not just from the open-source Mozilla Firefox, but from Google’s Chrome.

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Restaurant web design in Chicago and its suburbs has been getting on my nerves! I was looking for a pizza joint in Chicago and a lot of the websites created by Chicago web design company’s  had a flash intro, come on man.  Then once I skip the annoying flash intro I get to a site with no menu and a phone number and address hidden on the contact page.  What is going on with web design for restaurants!  Restaurant websites should not have an annoying flash intro and they should most definately contain the following:

• A phone number that is really easy to find, like in the upper right hand corner of the header on every page.
• A menu and a good one that actually contains prices
• An address so you know where the restaurant is and where you need to go to pick up your pizza to go
• Good, real images of the food you are about to consume

Why is this that hard for web designers to pull off, take it easy and don’t over design your site and make all of the above mentioned contents a priority.  Keep it simple!  Robbuti.com’s team of experienced web developers know what it takes to put up an easy to use functional restaurant website that will leave your customers with a pleasant experience as they get what they need without any of the design getting in the way.

Some restaurant owners don’t like to put pricing on thier menus as they change often and they don’t want to keep paying their web developer an arm and a leg to update it, but rest assured, we use 3 different types of content management systems for restaurant web sites that will make it easy for you to make the changes yourself without the anxiety of waiting for your web developer to make the changes in a timely manner.  We can use WordPress, Joomla or Drupal to make your new website or we can update your old site with one of these CMS.  Using these content management systems make everything so much easier as we will set them up right off the bat with proper search engine optimization throughout and you just add the content and the CMS does the rest.

Once we set up your new CMS, we will personally sit down with you and teach you everything you need to know to update your new site on a regular basis. Not only will this save you a lot of money, but it will give you complete control of your site and in a short time you will start learning more about your website and search engine optimization as it will all come together.  You’ll be suprised how easy all of this is, don’t let another SEO design company rip you off, let us teach you the ins and outs and you will take off running and be in complete control.

The Cherokee Nation will hold a Web Design workshop for small business owners from 8:30 a.m. to noon Feb. 3 in the computer lab of the Cherokee Nation Roads Building, located at the Cherokee Nation tribal complex south of Tahlequah.

The workshop is sponsored by the tribe’s Small Business Assistance Center and is intended to help educate individuals who are new to Web design or would like to update their existing Web sites.

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Hey, I’m the first to admit that my site sucks, but it does show up number one in a Google search for Chicago SEO and other searches, but I am working on the redesign and other web design sites. Chances are your site sucks too and you keep throwing tons of money at it with a team of developers, designers and SEO specialists causing your company to suffer a loss. I’ve worked for companies who have teams of programmers who are not only being over paid, but are useless. It’s better to find one person who can do everything or an experienced company with a proven team of experienced programmers, developers and Search Engine Optimization specialists. I laugh every time I see large companies paying 5 people to do what one person can do more effectively. If you are a large company, it is time you see the light and hire your web programmers and developers off site, keep one programmer or someone with an understanding of what is going on to keep the off site programmers honest. Hire a proven firm with proven expertise and get rid of your useless programmers who can’t think outside of the box. Time is of the essence and your in house programmers are crippling your company with little experience and no creativity.

As a business owner, being brown nosed by one of your employees can blind you to the fact that you need to try something different. Besides, it’s hard to let that brown noser go as it’s nice to be humored all of the time by that employee or employees.

Definition of a brown noser: A person who acts favorably to his or her peers to gain stasis or fancy that will eventually be used to their advantage. Such as a raise, promotion,  acceptance in a group,  job security. Usually brown nosers will do anything to gain the approval of their person of choice. These people can also be described as losers because they can’t work for what they want, instead they play dirty and butter-up the boss/teacher/peer into getting what they want. Another word for this person is a shoe shiner or a rough translation of brown noser in Spanish is, an eye licker.

It is easy to spot the brown noser when you are not the one being brown nosed as jealously will clearly be seen in the brown noser when the person they are brown nosing talks to another employee. I personally seen this happen in a few instances and it sickens me when the brown noser then tries to throw the other employee under the bus,  that he thinks the  “boss” is favoring over him, for anything he or she can.  If you are the brown noser, these statements are hitting home and calling you out so you may just have to brown nose even harder now or just stop being such a hater.  If you are the boss and you read this, hopefully you can see through the bull crap and wipe that brown off your nose by getting rid of that eye licking parasite. If you are the employee who is suffering because the brown noser is hating on you, stick it out and hopefully your boss can see right through it and pass that tapeworm.

I’m always happy to see my readers are listening to my blog posts like when I inform them on the importance of a Yahoo link directory. I’ve even had one reader write me and thank me for the advice. Here’s my next tip of the day, don’t reinvent the wheel, use open source software and save some time and lose a few programmers in the process. Look into WordPress, Drupal and Joomla but use them wisely or don’t even bother, you can always use your group of in house programmers to write their own content management system and it will cost you about 200k, but I like it better free and available today. The knowledge you need is out there all over the internet and best of all it’s free.

Search Engine Roundtable
July 18, 2008

A Google Groups thread has discussion on the topic of dynamically creating pages to target localized searches. For example, this particular webmaster wants to be able to target 28 different zip codes for his client’s A/C business. He summarizes what he wants to do:

Johns A/C does work in 28 different zip codes. He creates 28 webspages, page names reflect the township AC_service_City_zip.htm, meta tags reflect city, zip such as Johns AC serivce serving the “City” and “zip code” area. Then the body is a template and the city and zip are filled in for each city/zip area.

This way when someone does a search for AC service “zipcode” or “city” there is a good chance his page will be included.

This was a popular SEO tactic years and years ago. These days, it is much harder to rank well for terms using the automated city database methodology. We actually covered some of the databases you can purchase to accomplish this back in 2005. But is this legit?

According to Google, no it is not. In fact, Googler, Reid, said that the manner in which this webmaster wants to go, seems to be a “doorway page.” Reid said:

I agree with webado in this scenario. If the body of these pages is a template and the only thing that changes is the city and zip code, this sounds a lot like doorway pages:

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355

Why push the limit on how much duplicate content a page can have? Pages with unique content often perform the best in Google’s search results, are better for users, which in turn, is probably better for your business. Interesting old article.

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Here is some more information regarding the Yelp / Razzberry Lips story:* Yelp’s sales reps use negative postings as a “lead source” to call the owner and attempt to sell Business Owner Accounts.* I received a phone call from a sales rep named Summer who stated that negative reviews could be moved to the bottom of the page and possibly removed in the future if I purchased a Business Owner Account.* The hypocrisy of the Yelp founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons is legendary , and is further amplified by their removal of my negative “review” of Yelp on their own website. So much for , “The voice of the people” or “Real People. Real Reviews” *

Yelp hires paid “Yelpers” $15 / dollars an hour to write reviews because their business model is not succeeding. The ads for paid Yelpers can be found on Craigslist in every metro area in the U.S. You could call this, ” Paid People . Fake Reviews”.* On Friday July 4th , 2008 , the SF Chronicle ran an article about how Yelp removes establishments from Yelp if they complain or expose the Yelp hypocrisy publicly.* It is a known fact that Yelp is losing money at a burn rate that could put them out of business by next year. There is another popular website which has a “dead pool” in which the overwhelming number of readers select Yelp to go out of business within a year.

When considering eating at any restaurant or hiring any business to do some work for you, don’t look to Yelp for any help. Businesses everywhere are creating fake accounts to make themselves look good and to discredit the bad reviews which come from genuine reviews. Let’s face it, people who are pissed off about bad food or bad service will actually go out of their way to complain.  It is a lot less often that someone raves about the food they eat or the business they receive.  Yelp is nothing but fake profiles from businesses trying to discredit bad reviews from genuine customers. I will however say that there is another perpatrator on Yelp and that is  former employees or competitors putting up fake accounts to discredit a business.  Bottom line, the only somewhat truthful reviews on Yelp are those that are bad.  If the good outweighs the bad, BEWARE!

I have a friend in the restaurant business that actually had all of his bad reviews removed and positive reviews added, by people Yelp pay, by purchasing a business account and I don’t blame him as I would do the same, but it just shows how unreliable Yelp is for a honest review.

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